[The Squad in AIPACs gun sights]
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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – NOVEMBER 21, 2023  
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_ The Squad in AIPAC's gun sights _

Congress members Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Bowman, Lee, Bush, Tlaib and
Pressley. Credit, Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Mandel
Ngan/AFP via Getty Images, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, and Celal
Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images.

 

* The Far Right Stomped in School Board Votes
* Post-Roe Abortion Rate 
* Colleges: Two Sides
* A Worker-Driven Model for Labor Rights
* Conservatives and Antisemitism — Out of Hiding
* Democracy in Danger Everywhere
* After 70 Years, Albert Maltz Breaks the Blacklist
* The Squad and the Gaza Massacre
* Pushing Back Against Disaster Capitalism
* Uproar Over World Famous Art Event

THE FAR RIGHT STOMPED IN SCHOOL BOARD VOTES
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By Jarod Facundo
The American Prospect

Right-wing groups such as Moms for Liberty and the 1776 Project
suffered losses in school board elections across the country. Their
credibility was burned as they took the mantle of waging war against
critical race theory and demanding book bans, revealing themselves to
be guilty of the exact same government control and censorship they
accused their opponents of favoring.

POST-ROE ABORTION RATE 
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By Carter Sherman
The Guardian

The average number of abortions performed each month in the US rose in
the year after the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and allowed
more than a dozen states to ban the procedure. This stunning finding
masks a deep divide in abortion access in the US.

COLLEGES: TWO SIDES ON ISRAEL AND THE WAR
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By Kayla Epstein
BBC News

On campuses across the country, students and schools have received an
avalanche of criticism, accused by both sides of either justifying
extremism or staying silent in the face of it. These arguments have
played out over decades, but the unprecedented scale of the Hamas
attack and Israel’s military response means tensions and emotions
are spiking. 

A WORKER-DRIVEN MODEL FOR LABOR RIGHTS
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By Derek Seidman
Truthout

If you consume products from capitalist markets today — and, of
course, most of us do — you’ve surely seen your share of labels on
name brand items promising that your purchase is “ethical”. One
model has built up a proven record of upholding crucial protections
for the most at-risk workers within those supply chains: worker-driven
social responsibility (WSR).

CONSERVATIVES AND ANTISEMITISM — OUT OF HIDING
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By Matt Shuham
HuffPost

All at once, major American conservative figures seem to be using the
Israel-Hamas conflict as an opportunity to flaunt antisemitic
views. After Hamas’ deadly incursion into Israel last month, and as
the death toll continues to climb in Gaza from Israel’s ongoing
retaliatory invasion, right-wing leaders from Charlie Kirk to Elon
Musk have found a way to fault Jews worldwide.

DEMOCRACY IN DANGER EVERYWHERE
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By Sara Velert
EL PAÍS

Receding, eroding, weakening. These are terms that the Stockholm-based
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
uses in its latest annual report to describe the global state of
democracy after analyzing 173 countries. 

AFTER 70 YEARS, ALBERT MALTZ BREAKS THE BLACKLIST
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By Taylor Dorrell
Jacobin

When Communist writer Albert Maltz was blacklisted in the McCarthyist
era, no commercial publisher in the United States would touch his
novel A Tale of One January. A new edition slated for US distribution
means his 70-year blacklist will finally end.

THE SQUAD AND THE GAZA MASSACRE
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By Alexander Sammon
Slate

One of the biggest, bitterest, and most expensive political battles of
the 2024 election cycle has emerged: The American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, one of the most powerful, best-funded influence
operations in Washington, is planning to go all out to knock the famed
“Squad”—the small group of highly visible and popular
progressive legislators of color, most of them women—out of office.

PUSHING BACK AGAINST DISASTER CAPITALISM
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By Elena Novak
Yes!

The Immokalee Fair Housing Alliance was formed to address the
housing needs of farmworkers in Immokalee, an agricultural community
in neighboring Collier County. The alliance is building 128
hurricane-resistant affordable rental units for farmworkers and
low-income families

UPROAR OVER WORLD FAMOUS ART EVENT
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Artnet News

The entire curatorial search committee for Documenta 16 has stepped
down in response to the recent resignations of two of its members,
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger and Ranjit Hoskote, each for different
reasons relating to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The shock move comes
amid wider turmoil within Germany’s cultural sphere over what
should be protected as free speech.

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